Sulla’s name has become reviled, and many of his laws overturned, but his legacy would endure, and in 43 BC, Cicero would be killed through proscription. Cicero is able to play on the antipathy to Sulla, to question the morality of Oppianicus’ actions, even though theoretically legal at the time (although there is the implication that he is using the pretext of proscription to achieve his aims).